Inspiration only comes when you don't have the time and resources to really throw down and embrace it. This month I am relocating my entire little family to a new country, buying my first home and doing a DIY style container move. It is not the time to start a new project.
And yet here I am, ready to begin one. I just feel like if I do not start it I never will, it will just be one more inspiration that falls flat in my lackluster follow through. Let's be frank: I am a terrible blogger. I get caught up in real life and lose track of the virtual one. I am a fits-and-starts participant on social media - I like FB and Twitter, but I don't always have things to say. So I say nothing. The same principle has ruled the blogging. If I have nothing to say, I DON'T SAY ANYTHING. And then months go by before I take a moment to think about the world around me and my place in it.
This radio-silence brings me to my reboot. I am going to make regular posts. They may be short single links, or long elegies. The point is, I want to post every day. I originally started this blog to force myself to use my undernourished brain. I have spent the past few years making little babies into little people. I want to have a place where I get to think about more than that. It is not to diminish the work I do raising the kiddos; I need to have my own room in my head. The din of child rearing can make grown-up things hard to hold on to. I found the impulse for this blog was good, but it turned out to be too vague. I need more structure to keep me on track.
This is the new game: I learn something new every day, and I post about it. This is a simple plan. There is no restriction on topic or style, high culture or low, intellectual challenge or trivia, all are welcome. It just makes sense to me that if I want to commit to using my mind, I need to feed it regularly, and on a rich and varied diet of tantalizing little brain nuggets. So starting now, I commit to learning everyday, and being actively aware, seeking new thoughts and information.
Ready, set...learn!
And yet here I am, ready to begin one. I just feel like if I do not start it I never will, it will just be one more inspiration that falls flat in my lackluster follow through. Let's be frank: I am a terrible blogger. I get caught up in real life and lose track of the virtual one. I am a fits-and-starts participant on social media - I like FB and Twitter, but I don't always have things to say. So I say nothing. The same principle has ruled the blogging. If I have nothing to say, I DON'T SAY ANYTHING. And then months go by before I take a moment to think about the world around me and my place in it.
This radio-silence brings me to my reboot. I am going to make regular posts. They may be short single links, or long elegies. The point is, I want to post every day. I originally started this blog to force myself to use my undernourished brain. I have spent the past few years making little babies into little people. I want to have a place where I get to think about more than that. It is not to diminish the work I do raising the kiddos; I need to have my own room in my head. The din of child rearing can make grown-up things hard to hold on to. I found the impulse for this blog was good, but it turned out to be too vague. I need more structure to keep me on track.
This is the new game: I learn something new every day, and I post about it. This is a simple plan. There is no restriction on topic or style, high culture or low, intellectual challenge or trivia, all are welcome. It just makes sense to me that if I want to commit to using my mind, I need to feed it regularly, and on a rich and varied diet of tantalizing little brain nuggets. So starting now, I commit to learning everyday, and being actively aware, seeking new thoughts and information.
Ready, set...learn!
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